Flowers Forever: Flowers in Art and Culture: From the Renaissance To Artificial Intelligence - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 883665990X ISBN 13: 9788836659906

Publisher: Silvana, 2025

Synopsis

• Flowers Forever offers a fascinating, elaborately staged tour through the cultural history of flowers
• Accompanies an exhibition at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, February 2025
• Text in English and Italian

With their splendour and diversity flowers have always captivated us. They possess great symbolic power – whether in mythology, religion, art or politics. In earlier centuries, flowers were coveted status symbols, today they are traded globally as a mass product. Currently, the flower is coming into focus as a fragile yet indispensable component of our global eco-system. With objects from art, design, fashion and natural science, Flowers Forever offers a fascinating, elaborately staged tour through the cultural history of flowers from antiquity to the present day.

This volume comprises around 170 works from international collections, by Jan Brueghel the Younger, Abraham Mignon, Barbara Regina Dietzsch, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hannah Höch, Andreas Gursky, Miguel Chevalier, Ann Carrington, Patricia Kaersenhout, Kehinde Wiley, DRIFT, and many other artists. They all bring the multifaceted cultural history of flowers to life in impressive ways.

Text in English and Italian.

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With objects from art, design, fashion and natural science, Flowers offers a fascinating, elaborately staged tour through the cultural history of flowers from antiquity to the present day.
Fragile and powerful, flowers speak a universal language that transcends centuries and cultures. They narrate emotions, celebrate beauty, silently protest, and preserve age-old tales. It is precisely to them that the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome dedicates an extraordinary exhibition.
'Flowers are much more than simple decorative elements,' explains Natalia de Marco, Artistic Director of the Chiostro del Bramante. 'They act as universal symbols, epitomising every aspect of life: from resilience to spirituality, from love to conflict, from science to ecology.' This sensory adventure comes to life in an exhibition that combines works from the past and the present, offering the public an unprecedented interpretation of the role flowers have played in the evolution of our history and society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Silvana
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 883665990X
• ISBN 13: 9788836659906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Landau Suzanne, Stöhr Franziska